(18-03-2026, 02:05 AM)oeesordy wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I have noticed is that in and around plant stems are shorter words.
(18-03-2026, 05:28 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The 1-3 words before plant stems should be shorter than average, for the same reason that the 1-3 words at the end of each line should be. Namely, the Scribe would be more likely to break the line just before a long word than before a short one.
Conversely, the first word after a plant stem or line break should be longer than average.
There are, in fact, particular Voynichese "words" that have a strong affinity for certain positions (such as immediately before or after plant drawing intrusions, as well as at the beginning and ending of lines) -- and others that have a strong aversity for certain positions.
I reported a detailed study, showing the statistical significance of these observation, in a paper at the Internat. Conf. on Historical Cryptology in 2024: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(Due to length limitations for the research paper, the results actually shown in the paper are a truncated version of the full analysis.)